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Using Procedural Justice To Understand, Explain, And Prevent Decision-Making Errors In Forensic Sciences, Scott J. Behson, Roger Koppl

Organization Management Journal

It has been estimated that in the United States there are 20,000 false felony convictions a year due to deficiencies in the forensic science and criminal justice systems (Koppl, 2010c). As many of these errors can be attributed to flaws in the processes by which forensic science decisions are made, the principles of procedural justice are a useful lens for analyzing these processes and recommending improved practices. In this secondary analysis of current research, decision-making processes in forensic sciences are analyzed using Leventhal’s six criteria for establishing procedural justice. Specifically, we assesses the current state of forensic science, explain how …

Unopa Notes, Volume 51, Issue 9, June 2013

UNOPA: Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Economics And Politics Of Washington's Taxes: From Statehood To 2013, Don Burrows

Washington State Books

The book is divided into three parts. Part I contains five chapters. Chapters 1 and 4 provide a description, comparison and evaluation of Washington’s current tax structure. Chapter 2 provides a description, history and evaluation to the state’s three most important taxes: property, sales and B&O. Chapter 3 describes the roles played by the “tax policy makers” (i.e., citizens, governors, legislators, other public officials, businesses, labor groups, and numerous other interest group) in bringing about those changes. Chapter 5 includes a discussion and an analysis of contentious tax issues of concern to citizens, public officials and interest groups alike. Most …

Why Civil Gideon Won't Fix Family Law, Rebecca Aviel

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

This Essay explains why we should hesitate before throwing full support behind a civil Gideon initiative for family law, regardless of how wholeheartedly we embrace the proposition that parental rights are as important as physical liberty. The comparable importance of these interests does not necessarily mean that custody disputes should have the same procedural character as criminal matters, as becomes evident upon exploring some of the social, emotional, and structural qualities that differentiate the two contexts. Enhancing access to justice in family law requires that we design custody dispute resolution systems that honor the constitutionally significant interests at stake while …

Girls In The Maine Criminal Justice System – Special Bulletin (2013), Trish Knight, Becky Noréus

Maine Statistical Analysis Center

The purpose of this brief is to understand the experiences of girls who become involved in Maine’s juvenile justice system. The data used for this report include four cohorts of girls who have had contact with the system between 2006 and 2011. The four cohorts are:

• Girls who were adjudicated for the first time and supervised by DJS between 2006-2011 (“First Adjudicated Supervised Youth”) (Table 1);
• Girls who were arrested between 2006 and 2011 (Table 2);
• Girls who were discharged from the Department of Corrections (supervision or detention) between 2006-2011(Table 3); and
• Girls who were committed to a youth development …

2013 Summer - Schedule Of Classes, Office Of The Registrar, East Tennessee State University

Registration Resources

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“You Got To Know Us”: A Hopeful Model For Music Education In Urban Schools, Frank Martignetti, Brent C. Talbot, Matthew Clauhs, Timothy Hawkins, Nasim Niknafs

Sunderman Conservatory of Music Faculty Publications

Urban schools, and the students and teachers within, are often characterized by a metanarrative of deficit and crisis, causing the complex realities of urban education to remain unclear behind a wall of assumptions and stereotypes. Within music education, urban schools have received limited but increasing attention from researchers. However, voices from practitioners are often missing from this dialogue, and the extant scholarly dialogue has had a very limited effect on music teacher education. In this article, five music educators with a combined thirty years of experience in urban schools examine aspects of their experiences in the light of critical pedagogy …

Bench Presence: Toward A More Complete Model Of Federal District Court Productivity, William G. Young, Jordan M. Singer

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

This Article considers what it means for a federal district court to be productive, and how such productivity might be assessed. Previous studies have focused almost exclusively on the speed of case processing, equating a court's productivity (explicitly or implicitly) with the court's rate of docket clearance or a case's average time from filing to disposition. This thin definition of "productivity," however, is not consistent with either classical economic understandings of the term or common public expectations of the courts. In particular, analyzing the speed or efficiency of a court says nothing about whether the parties or the public view …

Gideon’S Law-Protective Function, Nancy Leong

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Gideon v. Wainwright dramatically affects the rights of indigent defendants by entitling them to representation. But Gideon has another systemic consequence as well. In addition to protecting the rights of individual defendants in particular trials, Gideon also protects the integrity of the development of the law by ensuring that the legal principles courts articulate are the product of a legitimate adversarial process. While law protection was not a central rationale for the outcome in Gideon, the decision’s reasoning and the surrounding historical context resonate with the concern for the integrity of judicial lawmaking. And an examination of subsequent cases reveals …

Rage Against The Machine: A Reply To Professors Bierschbach And Bibas, Erik Luna

Scholarly Articles

The article presents a response to the article by Professor Albert Alschuler on the administrative rulemaking in criminal law enforcement and guiding the power which was wielded by criminal justice officials. It mentions that the increase in the rate of the punishment given to the convicts is less effective in reducing the crime and enhancing public safety. It informs that bureaucratization can be considered as the means to improve the criminal process in the U.S.

The Only Thing That Stops A Guy With A Bad Policy Is A Guy With A Good Policy: An Examination Of The Nra’S “National School Shield” Proposal, Gordon A. Crews, Angela D. Crews, Catherine E. Burton

Criminal Justice Faculty Research

With the recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, the public and the government are looking for solutions to school violence. The National Rifle Association (NRA), a Second Amendment, pro-gun advocacy group, has proposed an “education and training emergency response program” called The National School Shield, which advocates the placement of armed security in schools. Although the program sounds provocative, serious questions complicate its plausibility, necessity, motive, and effectiveness. Furthermore, the potential policy and practical ramifications of encouraging armed security forces in U.S. schools are complex. The authors examined the proposal’s key elements from a public policy perspective …

Senate Gridlock And Federal Judicial Selection, Carl Tobias

Notre Dame Law Review

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Prison Is Prison, Brooke D. Coleman

Notre Dame Law Review

Two indigent men stand before two separate judges. Both will be sent to prison if they lose their cases. One receives appointed counsel, but the other does not. This discrepancy seems terribly unjust, yet the Supreme Court has no problem with it. It recently affirmed in Turner v. Rogers, that where an indigent individual is subject to criminal charges that can result in incarceration, he has a right to appointed counsel, but where an indigent individual is subject to civil proceedings where incarceration is a consequence, he does not. In other words, criminal and civil proceedings have different rules, and …

Women Who Kill: An Analysis Of Cases In Late Eighteenth- And Early Nineteenth-Century London, Kathy Callahan

Faculty & Staff Research and Creative Activity

In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London, the number of women prosecuted for murder was quite small with only forty women reaching the felony court at the Old Bailey for trial between 1783 and 1815. Despite the small number of prosecutions, the cases do reveal important information about gender and criminal justice. Accusations demonstrate difficulties women had with a wide range of interpersonal relationships, their lives in the city, in addition to domestic and substance abuse. Sentencing patterns, too, are illuminating. For those women found guilty, the courts often hesitated to convict to the fullest extent of the law. Juries …

Navigating Conflicts In Cyberspace: Legal Lessons From The History Of War At Sea, Jeremy Rabkin, Ariel Rabkin

Chicago Journal of International Law

Despite mounting concern about cyber attacks, the United States has been hesitant to embrace retaliatory cyber strikes in its overall defense strategy. Part of the hesitation seems to reflect concerns about limits imposed by the law of armed conflict. But analysts who invoke today's law of armed conflict forget that war on the seas has always followed different rules. The historic practice of naval war is a much better guide to reasonable tactics and necessary limits for conflict in cyberspace. Cyber conflict should be open-as naval war has been-to hostile measures short of war, to attacks on enemy commerce, to …

Juveniles And College: Inside Out As A Way Forward, Anne M. Nurse

All Faculty Articles

In this article the author argues that the Inside Out model is ideally suited to help incarcerated juveniles considering enrolling in college postrelease. The transition to college can be extremely difficult for such youth who may lack the cultural capital needed to succeed in higher education. This is unfortunate as research suggests that college can have a range of positive effects, including reduced criminality and increased earnings. With some adaptations to its curriculum, Inside Out classes can provide students with much of what they need to succeed. Best practices are described at the end of the article. © 2013 SAGE …

Hughes V. Jackson: Race And Rights Beyond Dred Scott, Martha S. Jones

North Carolina Law Review

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Schizophrenia: Causes, Crime, And Implications For Criminology And Criminal Justice, Anthony Walsh, Ilhong Yun

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper is aimed at criminologists and criminal justicians seeking to understand their role in educating law enforcement and correctional personnel who must deal with the mentally ill. It is motivated by William Johnson's (2011) recent call for rethinking the interface between mental illness, criminal justice, and academia, and his call for advocacy. We concur with his concerns, and insist that this rethinking must necessarily include grounding in the etiology of mental illness (specifically, with schizophrenia) as it is currently understood by researchers in the area. Advocacy must go hand in hand with a thorough knowledge of the condition of …

Reconsidering The Gathering/Publication Dichotomy: Recording As Speech? What Next?, Steven Helle

Northern Illinois University Law Review

The First Amendment information-gathering right has always been inferior to the long-established right to speak and publish. As such, the danger has been that a court concerned, for example, with prejudicial publicity could characterize the issue as gathering instead of publication—and apply a more relaxed standard. Indeed, the transparent concern in most gathering cases has been with the ultimate publication. When states defend statutes prohibiting recording without the consent of all parties to a conversation, the asserted “privacy” interests are generally not threatened by the physical act of recording, but by the disclosure of the content of the recording. Thus, …

Political Science Department Newsletter, V8n1, June 2013, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Political Science.

Political Science Newsletter

Contents:

---Greetings from the Department of Political Science
---Iowa Politics Students Visit State Capitol
---Recent Graduate: Charles (Chaz) Gustafson
---Recent Graduate: Erica Zimmerman
---Recent Graduate: Brett Kim
---Recent Graduate: Jerry Hageman
---Alumni Profile: Maggie Stehn
---Al Hays, Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Graduate Program in Public Policy Retires
---Cohn named Council on Foreign Relations Fellow
---News from Faculty
---Students Take Road Trip
---Former Student Speaks on Egypt in Transition
---Second Annual Hunger Banquet
---Center for International Peace and Security Studies
---CSBS Distinguished Alumni Features Two Political Science Graduates
---Campbell Speaks on VAWA
---Scholarships and …

Adolescent Criminal Responsibility, Proportionality, And Sentencing Policy: Roper, Graham, Miller/Jackson, And The Youth Discount, Barry C. Feld

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

Race In Juvenile Justice And Sentencing Policy: An Overview Of Research And Policy Recommendations, Michael J. Leiber, Jennifer H. Peck

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

A Sociological And Statistical Analysis Of Fraternity Men's Attitudes On Rape And Sexual Assault, Cierra Ensign

Social Sciences

Hostility, aggression, and empathy levels of 488 fraternity men were measured using portions of the Burt Rape Myth Acceptance Scale, Malamuth’s Behavioral Intent to Rape Question, Hostility Toward Women Scale, and Survey Measure of Emotional Empathy. Thirteen out of the fifteen Interfraternity Council (IFC) chapters at a west coast public university campus volunteered to participate in the study. The survey consisted of thirty-five questions aimed at finding a correlation between the respondents housing location, year in school, position of office in his fraternity, and number of siblings and hostility, aggression, and empathy. Although no significant findings relating hostility, aggression, and …

Geographic Information Systems Analysis Of Crime In San Luis Obispo For 2012, Eric Delorme

Social Sciences

The research and final project that I plan to do will be composed of a few different parts. I will be taking crime report data from the city of San Luis Obispo and analyzing it with GIS software. The data will be from the most recent reported calendar year. I will be looking at the data spatially so that I can compare the areas of the city in which crime is most prevalent. I will be creating multiple maps which will be looking individually at different types of crime, such as violent crimes, burglary and theft, assault and battery, sex …

Decoupling Federal Offense Guidelines From Statutory Limits On Sentencing , Kevin Bernardo

Missouri Law Review

This Article discusses the sensibility of each of these three options. Part II sets forth a hypothetical controlled substance offense to better illustrate the choices faced by the Commission. Part III recounts approaches that the Commission has actually adopted in incorporating statutory limits into the Guidelines. Part IV addresses the goals of guideline sentencing and concludes that the Guidelines’ structure should be primarily driven by actual fairness concerns. Applying actual fairness as the overriding concern, Part V concludes that statutory limits should not be incorporated into an offense guideline when some offenders subject to the guideline will not be subject …

Psci 365.01: Public Policy Issues And Analysis, Jeffrey D. Greene

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Life Facing Bars: A Film Documentary, Matthew Yoon

Journalism

No abstract provided.

Brain Overclaim Redux, Stephen J. Morse

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

Speech

Trouble In The Skies: The Acaa's Failure To Protect Passengers With Disabilities, Raina Urton

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

No abstract provided.

Miller V. Alabama And The (Past And) Future Of Juvenile Crime Regulation, Elizabeth S. Scott

Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality

Speech